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IceDrive silently lost 12% of my files (3,000+ files) over 3 years. Check your backup NOW. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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IceDrive lost thousands of my files without any notification. Their support escalated my ticket, then ghosted me for 2 weeks before closing it. I'm sharing a script to check if your files are actually backed up: https://github.com/rupumped/NicksAPPS/blob/main/Python/IceDriveVerification.py. Note that it requires argparse.

Usage: python IceDriveVerification.py C:\Documents C:\Photos C:\Projects --backup-root I:\

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

That's unfortunate.

Did you test restores before this and they were OK?

I definitely recommend having at least 2 backups, so you have 3 copies of your important data at all times.

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